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    • By: Alvin Toffler
    • Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • From the author of Future Shock comes a striking way out of today's despair...a bracing, optimistic look at our new potentials....

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    • The End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order
    • By: Martin Jacques
    • Narrated by: Scott Peterson
    • Length: 16 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-17-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 221 ratings
    • According to even the most conservative estimates, China will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by 2027....

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    • America's Coming Demographic Disaster
    • By: Jonathan V. Last
    • Narrated by: Jonathan V. Last
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 93 ratings
    • Look around you and think for a minute: Is America too crowded? For years, we have been warned about the looming danger of overpopulation....

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    • 9 Rules for Humans in the Age of Automation
    • By: Kevin Roose
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 254 ratings
    • What does it mean to be a human in a world that is increasingly built by and for machines? Technology columnist Kevin Roose lays out a hopeful, pragmatic vision of how people can succeed in the machine age....

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    • How to Grapple with Complexity, Lead with Purpose, and Cultivate Transformative Social Change
    • By: Kari Grain
    • Narrated by: Kari Grain
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Hope alone can be transformational - but in moments of despair, or when you’re up against profound injustice, it isn’t enough on its own. Hope without action is, at best, naive. At its worst, it tricks you into giving up the power and agency you have....

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    • Reshaping the Future of People, Nations and Business
    • By: Eric Schmidt, Jared Cohen
    • Narrated by: Roger Wayne
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 04-23-13
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 263 ratings
    • In an unparalleled collaboration, two leading global thinkers in technology and foreign affairs give us their widely anticipated, transformational vision of the future....

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    • The Top Trends That Will Reshape the World in the Next 20 Years
    • By: James Canton
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Our world is constantly buffeted by new and dramatic changes we can't fully grasp. No one is fully prepared for the challenges, crises, and risks that lie ahead. The Extreme Future is a blueprint for what's next and how to navigate these changes....

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    • The Shock of Global Population Decline
    • By: Darrell Bricker, John Ibbitson
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will begin to decline, dramatically reshaping the social, political, and economic landscape....

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    • Finding Refuge on a Changed Earth
    • By: Madeline Ostrander
    • Narrated by: Madeline Ostrander
    • Length: 12 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Once a distant forecast, climate change is now reaching into the familiar, threatening our basic safety and forcing us to reexamine who we are and how we live....

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    • Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
    • By: Alan Weisman
    • Narrated by: Adam Grupper
    • Length: 18 hrs
    • Release date: 10-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the best seller The World Without Us....

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    • An Essay
    • By: Julietta Singh
    • Narrated by: Julietta Singh
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • The Breaks is a profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world....

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    • How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow
    • By: Robert B. Laughlin
    • Narrated by: Traber Burns
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground....

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    • How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World
    • By: Jennifer D. Sciubba
    • Narrated by: Christine Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Political demographer Jennifer D. Sciubba argues that a deeper understanding of fertility, mortality, and migration trends points us toward the investments we need to make today to shape the future we want tomorrow....

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    • Decoding Our Demographic Destiny
    • By: Bradley Schurman
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age—when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen—and explores what it could mean for our collective future....

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    • Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Explored
    • By: Bernard Marr
    • Narrated by: Dennis Kleinman
    • Length: 7 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Best-selling author, strategic business advisor, and respected futurist Bernard Marr explains the role of XR in providing innovative businesses solutions for companies of varying sizes and across different industries....

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    • Reflections on the End of a Civilization
    • By: Roy Scranton
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-23-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • In this bracing response to climate change, Roy Scranton combines memoir, reportage, philosophy, and Zen wisdom to explore what it means to be human in a rapidly evolving world....

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    • What's Next?
    • By: David Christian
    • Narrated by: Jamie Jackson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • David Christian is renowned for pioneering the emerging discipline of Big History, which surveys the whole of the past. With Future Stories, he casts his sharp analytical eye forward, offering an introduction to the strange world of the future....

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    • The Essential Guide to the Business Opportunities of the Web3 Era
    • By: Cathy Hackl
    • Narrated by: Laurel Lefkow
    • Length: 5 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In Into the Metaverse, Cathy Hackl, a globally recognized futurist and one of the world’s first Chief Metaverse Officers, shares her insights on what companies need to do to harness the next iteration of the internet - the metaverse....

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    • Climate Change, Cultural Collapse, and the Hard Future Ahead
    • By: John Michael Greer
    • Narrated by: Michael Dowd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 203 ratings
    • The future we face now is one in which today's industrial civilization unravels in the face of uncontrolled climate change and resource depletion....

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